Combined horse-collar and pad.



No.'va2,s16. PATENTED FEB. 14, 1905 1'11. MASSEY.

COMBINED HORSBGOLLAR AND PAD.

APPLICATION IILBD 001. 7,1904.

Wanna UNITED STAT S Patented February 14 1905i,

PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS R. MASSEY, 'oF ATLANTA, GEORGIA.-

COMBINED HORSE-COLLAR AND PADV.-

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 782,616, dated. February 1 4-, 1905.

Application filed'October 7, 1904- Serial NOTZZ'LFJBO.

T mZZ whom it mag/concern.-

Be it known that I, THOMAS H. MA-ssEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Atl anta, in the county of Fulton and State of Georgia, have invented new and useful Im- My invention has relation to new and useful improvements in combined horse-collars and pads therefor and in the method of producing the same.

The primary object is to provide a combined horse-collar and pad which will be simple in construction, cheap of production, and easy of manufacture and in which the collar and pad will together form an entirety of construction, which will obviate the tendency of the pad to work loose from beneath the collar, as is the case when the collar and pad are formed separately and constitute independent articles.

A further object is to construct an article of the character mentioned which will permit of the collar and the pad being formed and completed by-a method embodyinga minimum of steps.

A further object is to produce a combined 'collar and pad which will be soft and su'fli ciently flexibleto fully protect the neck and shoulders of the draft-animal and adapt itself to the form thereof, but which will at the same time be so constructed as to retain the shape necessary to obtain the best results.

I have fully and clearly illustrated my invention in the accompanying drawings, to be taken as a part of this specification, and wherein- Figure 1 is a perspective View of the combined collar and pad constituting my present invention. Fig. 2 is a plan view of one-of the blanks forming one side of one of the belly portions of the pad. Fig. 3 is a plan View of one of the blanks which, in connection with the pad, forms the body of the collar portion. Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section through the pad-blanks stitched together and previously to turning the same. Fig. 5 is a transverse section through the pad-blanks when laid face to face and stitched and before being turned to form the body of the pad Fig. 6- is a View of one-half of the pad portion with the collarblank secured thereto along one edge, the parts being in the positions in which they are arranged prior to the insertion of the stuffing, one edge of the. collar-blank being turned back to more clearlyshow the relative arrangement. Fig. 7 is a section on the line 7 7 of Fig. 6 after the pad and its rim portion have been stuifed,'and Fig. 8 is a section on the line 8 8 of Fig. 1 after the collar-blank has been secured to the stuffed pad along both its edges and. the fender therebyformed on the rear edge of the pad and the collar. portion stuffed.

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates a blank constituting one face or side of one of the pad-bellies. This blank may be of anysuitable flexible material, a textile fabric, such as canvas, being usually employed, and said blank is cut so as to be bounded on its front or rim edge by a line which is approximately straight, as at 2, from the upper end of the blank to a point adjacent the lower end thereof, where said line is curved outwardly, as at 3. The top edge of the blank is bounded by a concave-curved line, as at 4; which gives the crown of the pad the proper form to adapt it snugly and comfortably to the ridge of the animals neck. is bounded by an approximately straight line 5, running for the greater part of the length of the blank substantially parallel to the line 2. This line 5 merges at its lower portion into an outwardly-curved line which forms a peak 6, and from said peak this line is curved inwardly and forwardly, as at 7, terminating at the extreme lower, end of the blank. The peak portion referred to when the pad is stuffed forms the main body of the belly of the pad, which rests against the shoulder of the animal, and that portion bounded by the curved lines 3 and 7 forms the breast part of the pad. It

will be understood that two blanks of the con- On its rear portion the blank Two of the blanks are laid face to face with their boundaries'in coincidence, and a line of stitches 8 is then run across the blanks closely adjacent the upper edge lines 4:, whereby the blanks are secured together at their upper ends. This operation is repeated with two more blanks, and the said blanks are then swung outwardly on the stitch-lines away from each other to assume the position shown in Fig. 3. The two sets of joined blanks are then laid face to face with the selvage edges at their intermediate portions on the outside, and the sets of blanks are then united at their front and rear edges by lines of stitches 9, so that a tubular jacket is formed open at its extreme ends and the respective portions of which to either side of the line 5 constitute the bellies of the pad. The tubular body thus formed is then turned inside out, so that the raw edges of the blanks are brought inside of the body in order to give the outer face of the pad as smooth a surface as possible.

10 designates the blank, which is employed in connection with the pad, as above described, to form the collar body or roll. This blank is formed upon its longitudinal edges on lines which give thereto a configuration the same as the pad portion, except that said collarblank at each 'point along its length is made narrower than the corresponding point on the pad, which is for a purpose to be presently set forth.

The collar-blank, as described, is laid upon the outside of the pad, with its forward edges corresponding to the lines 2 2 3 3 and removed from the raw edge of said pad, the raw edge of said blank being directed toward the rear of the pad-bellies, after which a line of stitches 10 is run the whole length of the blank and pad, said stitches extending entirely through both faces of the pad. The blank is then folded rearwardly on the line of stitches 10 to bring its rear curved edge into substantial parallelism with the corresponding curved edge of the pad, the width of the blank being such as to have its rear edge fall a distance short of the. boundry-line of the pad. It will be seen that this reversal of the blank will also bring the corresponding front edge of the blank and the pad into parallelism, and a second line of stitches 11 is run down the front edge of said blank closely ad jacentthe stitches 10, previously mentioned, for securing the blank to the pad. It will be seen that both sets of stitches serve to separate the tubular pad into a forward narrow hollow section 12 and a rear hollow portion 13. Stuffing of any suitable character is then inserted within the hollow portions of the pad, the forward narrow section forming the rim orfront roll of the collar. For the purpose of securing the collar-blank to the pad and for separating the rim from the body portion of said pad a sin gle line of stitching might be suflicient; but

for the purpose of adding additional strength and absolutely preventing the stufling from breaking through the body of the pad into the rim, or vice versa, the second line of stitching is employed. The rim and pad sections having been stuffed, the rear edge of the collar-blank is secured to said pad by a line of stitches 14: running along said edge, said stitching extending entirely through both faces of the pad and the intermediate stuffing and being drawn tight in order to separate the pad into a fender or back roll 15 and an intermediate section 16, as shown in Fig. 8. After securing the rear edge of the collarblank in position the confined space thus formed between said blank and the outer face of'the pad is stuffed with a suitable filling 18, wherebya collar-roll is formed on the outer face of the pad intermediate the rim and fender, the stitch-lines which secure the collarblank in position serving to define and separate the said rim and fender from the body portion of the pad.

I prefer not to stitch the rear edge of the collar-blank to the pad until after said pad has been stuffed, for the reason that were said rear edge secured in place prior to stufiing the pad considerable difficulty would be experienced in stuffing the fender or back roll in view of its small diameter, which would render the stufling of the same more difficult.

At the crown of the collar I may employ suitable strengthening-strips, as shown at 19, to reinforce the seams at this point and also to maintain the collar and pad in the proper form by giving it additional stifiness. 'Wearpieces .ZO'may be secured at the proper positions on the outer face of the collar-section to protect the same in a well-known manner.

The lower ends of the pad-sections and collar-roll may be closed and finished off in any desired manner; but I have shown them as being closed by strips of material 21 folded across said ends and secured in place by suitable tacks or rivets 22 extending through said strips, the pad-faces,-and the collarblank,substantially as shown in Fig. 1.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. Acombined horse-collar and pad comprising a pad-body, a collar-roll blank arranged on the outer face of said pad and secured thereto by lines of stitching removed from the front and rear edges of the pad, said stitching separating the pad-body into rim and fender sections and an intermediate padsection.

2. A combined collar and pad comprising a pad-body, a collar-roll blank arranged on the outer face of said pad, said blank being of substantially the same configuration as the pad but narrower than the latter and arranged with its front and rear edges removed from the outer face of said pad and having its edges re moved from the edges of the pad and means to secure the edges of the blank to the pad,

said means also serving to separate the pad into a rim, a fender-section, and an intermediate pad-section.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name I 5 to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

THOMAS R. MASSEY.

Witnesses:

C. W. NEHAR, C. R. GARNER. 

